Logos 159

The Lord said: “All that a person desires to obtain from Me, I grant to him.”

Whether every man, whether he is full of desires, whether he longs for liberation or who has no desire, worships the Supreme Lord. Of these three types of men, one seeks happiness through the satisfaction of his material desires, another believes that he will become happy by basing himself in the Absolute, and the third, the perfect being, is a devotee of the Lord. The latter desires nothing from the Lord in return for his devotion, but only wants to serve him with absolute love. In any case, you must worship God, the Supreme Person, because the Lord fulfills everyone's desires. This is the benefit of the worship offered to Krishna, God, the Sovereign Person.

Whoever devotes himself to it, would he have desires of material enjoyment, gradually becomes a pure being and gets rid of all material aspiration.

Logos 160

Those who claim that one can progress spiritually while enjoying material existence are liars, because it is impossible for materialists to attain spiritual realization. Indeed, spiritual realization remains inaccessible to those who are too attached to the pleasures of the senses.

It is written in the original sacred scriptures: “Men too eager for material possessions and sensory pleasures cannot reach the conscience of God. Too attached to the pleasures of the senses, to wealth and glory, led astray by these desires, no one ever knows the firm will to serve the Supreme Lord with love and devotion”.

Applying the following four principles or austerities allows you to detach yourself from materialism, achieve spiritual realization, and turn your thoughts to God. There are four principles of renunciation:

1) renouncing any illicit sexual activity;

2) the renunciation of the consumption of animal flesh (meat, fish and eggs);

3) renouncing the use of stimulants or toxic substances (drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, coffee, tea);

4) and the renouncement of any game of chance.